Natural Beauty

Natural BeautyBy: Ling Ling Huang Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction Longlisted for the PEN Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Sly, surprising, and razor sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parentsalso talented musicianswho fled

catch the crook

when her mother will return just like the swallows

In Rereading Sex

Mikael Kohler-Frost is found wandering

from the photo-realistic “object visualizers” like Grandin herself

hoping desperately to keep the memory of civilization alive

each of these stories bears the hallmark themes that characterise Greene's great novels: betrayal and vengeance

Angola was tumbling into pandemonium

who has fled from Trieste and found work as a foreign correspondent for the Reuters bureau

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

Barbara McLean describes the beauty

downplayed the issues of slavery and racial injustice